Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 253
sks, and the eyebrows,are most delicately expressed. What enhances the value of thismosaic is the name of the artist worked in it—Dioscorides of Samos.The subjects represented in mosaics are in endless variety, andgenerally are derived from mythology or heroic myths. Landscapesand ornaments in… … MOSAIC PAVEMENT. The Romans brought the art of mosaic to the highest perfection,not with regard to taste and composition, but by adding newmaterials to those which had been employed by the Greeks. Theyobtained their knowledge of this art by their conquests; andtowards the end of the republic they…
Art, Ancient · Archaeology
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